Ms. Kaley's Classroom Room 24

Hello Everyone!

A reminder that Parent Teacher Conferences begin Monday afternoon.  Monday-Wednesday are early outs at 1pm.  Please make sure you have signed up as well.  Students do not have to come to ours for this conference round, but if they come with you they can sit out in the kiva or choose to join us.

I have printed out Nonsense words and Letter names/sounds fluency practice, as well as sight words up to 3rd grade and multiplication practice to give out at conferences.  You will receive a packet to take home if your child needs to work on these items at home.  Even a few minutes a day working on reading and math skills can make a drastic difference in your child’s learning.

Past Week:

Wednesday we tried out having the laptops all afternoon.  I checked in with 3rd graders on Utah Compose and then everyone worked on Prodigy Math.  The students are really enjoying the game!  There are parts in the game where your child will come across an item to buy.  This isn’t necessary at all and doesn’t effect the assignment I give them that they are accomplishing.  Your child should just X out and continue in the game.  A few minutes a day on the game helps and allows me to see if anyone needs any extra support.

Thursday we had the Utah Rotary Club come and give the 3rd graders their dictionaries.  We also had our Fall Trash Pick Up community field trip.  Thank you thank you for those parents who came to chaperone.  The kids really had a good time!  Our kids were still even looking for trash on the playground after we had gotten back to the school.

Friday we went over tattling vs an needed comment to the teacher.  We also learned about Mother Teresa.  Some students mentioned who their peacemaker is going to be.  Peacemaker projects are due Oct. 27th.  We don’t have studio that day, so we will share projects that morning.

In cultural this week we did Geography:

Level 1s: Continents and zones of the Earth

Level 2s: Tectonic plates

Level 3s: Earth’s Atmosphere

Geometry was the focused leveled math lesson this week.

Level 1s: Types of shapes (circle, triangles, quadrilaterals, curvilinear shapes)

Level 2s: Introduction to angles: their parts and acute, obtuse, right, and straight angle

Level 3s: Angles in triangles

Upcoming Week:

We will focus on work cycle in the mornings.  As far as I know, we still have PE Tuesday morning. We still don’t have a music yet.  Therefore, on the progress report, you will not see music filled out.  If other areas are blank on your child’s progress report then we have not gotten to it yet.

Our progress report is on a 1-4 grading scale.  4s are absolute mastery.  The child not only knows the content, but applies it on other areas of learning, can explain it, teach it, and have gone beyond the expectations.  Most students are in the 1-2 range for this time of year.  Please don’t read our scale as 1s=poor,  2s=satisfactory, 3s=good, and 4s=exceptional.  The way to view the scale is based on how much you child can do/remember the work by themselves and show the learning through independence.  Our scale is on the report and if you have any questions, please ask at our conference time.

We will get one day of Botany (Tuesday morning) to get our cultural in.  Fractions will also be the math subject of the week for each grade level.

There is no school Thursday and Friday.

Friday Oct. 27th is also our annual Fall Festival!  Here is a note from MAPA:

• Wristbands – allow access to bounce houses, dunk tank, and climbing wall – provided by Custom Events
• Tickets – allow access to all other events and goodies, including haunted house, root bier garden, cotton candy and more